“The United States refused almost all contacts due to the fact that we were forced to defend the Russians in Ukraine.

They were bombed for eight years without any reaction from the West, which only encouraged the Russophobic and neo-Nazi actions of the Kyiv regime,” he said.

Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov said earlier that Russian diplomats in Washington are in a virtual blockade.

According to him, contacts with representatives of the US administration were reduced to technical ones, and in response to letters to members of the US House of Representatives and the Senate of the US Congress with a proposal for a meeting, they receive refusals.